The following is directly quoted from the “About Us” page on Dowser. Nuff’ said, I think. Subscribe to this website.
” Think of five problems facing the world.
Now think of five solutions.
If you found the first easier than the second, don’t worry. Everybody does.
We know much more about what’s broken than what’s being done to fix things.
We created Dowser to address this imbalance.
We’re living through a global social change renaissance. Millions of people are building organizations and social enterprises to attack problems using new ideas and models.
But most of this activity is hidden. The news is better at telling us what went wrong yesterday than what’s being done to make tomorrow better.
At Dowser, we present the world through a ‘solution frame,’ rather than a ‘problem frame.’ We’re interested in the practical and human elements of social innovation: Who’s solving what and how. We want to know how people come up with ideas, how they put them into practice, how they pay the bills, and what fuels their fire.
We don’t proselytize, provide feel good news, or celebrate a few heroes. We provide trustworthy news and provocative ideas with a discerning eye.
We’re open to any sector – nonprofit, business, government. And we’re interested in social innovators of any age in any field. We’ll be starting with stories in the U.S. and Canada. Later, we’ll expand globally.
Dowser is a place for anyone who cares about initiating positive change. We tell stories about people who are creatively attacking social problems. People who show how achievable it is to make an impact.
A dowser uses a divining rod to uncover water. We uncover stories of change.”
